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Property development company Hearin Properties is partnering with International Workplace Group to bring a new flexible ...
Alabama-based Radiance Technologies is investing $370 million to build a “state-of-the-art” secure microchip packaging ...
The latest installment of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation’s Opportunity Data Project explores one of the most fundamental ...
Church attendance may be down nationwide, but construction of houses of worship is surging, The Wall Street Journal writes.  Federal data show spending on religious buildings rose nearly 17% in the 12 ...
New U.S. home sales outpaced expectations in July, Bloomberg reports.  New home sale contracts were signed at a 652,000 annualized rate—above economists’ projections of 630,000—even as overall demand ...
Fremont, California, is breaking new ground in how municipalities insure against floods, Governing writes.  The city’s risk manager, Steven Schwarz, grew frustrated that the only facility with flood ...
Keurig Dr Pepper has struck a deal to buy Peet’s Coffee owner JDE Peet’s for $18 billion, a prelude to spinning off its coffee brands into a separate public company. The deal is transformational for ...
Construction is underway on the former Richland Parish farmland that is the site of Meta’s most ambitious project yet—a $10 billion, nine-building “Hyperion” data center, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...
Pricey prescriptions and nagging medical costs are swamping some insurers and employers now. Patients may start paying for it next year. Health insurance will grow more expensive in many corners of ...
The end of an exemption on tariff duties for low-value packages coming into the U.S. is causing multiple international postal services to pause shipping as they await more clarity on the rule. The ...
Here’s a look at issued permits and property deals that occurred last week in East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes. East ...
Shaquille O’Neal on Friday expressed his support for the development of a new $400 million arena on LSU’s campus.